Manchester Metropolis head coach Gareth Taylor says that his facet need greater than qualification from the UEFA Ladies’s Champions League group stage.
The Cityzens have travelled to Sweden forward of their Matchday 4 fixture towards Hammarby IF this night.
Manchester Metropolis can safe qualification for the knockout levels with a constructive consequence however head coach Taylor says that his facet need greater than qualification, they need to win each sport.
“After we received into the group stage, the target was then to qualify for the following stage,” Taylor mentioned when talking forward of tonight’s fixture. “After all, we need to do this, we’re in place to do this however we need to win each sport that we play.
“After this [international] break, we’ve got the following block of video games which full the Champions League group stage which includes Pölten at house and Barcelona away.”
Manchester Metropolis have been 2-0 winners towards Hammarby within the reverse fixture final week. Taylor was impressed with the Swedish facet’s physicality in that match.
He mentioned “They’re a giant, bodily, sturdy workforce which is what we have been conscious of. Bodily, they’re very aggressive in what they do with and with out the ball; set performs, you additionally must be actually switched on as a result of they’re very sturdy in that a part of their sport.
“They’re fairly aggressive in moments once they do come out and press towards us however we’ve labored actually exhausting on that to ensure we’re arrange and prepared for it.”
Hammarby are identified for his or her fanatical fanbase and Taylor says that his facet are trying ahead to feeling some hostility.
He mentioned “It’s going to be a hostile ambiance which is absolutely good. It’s one thing totally different to what we’d usually expertise however I feel that the ladies are actually enthusiastic about that.
“I watched their earlier [home] sport towards Pölten and the ambiance was actually good. They get behind the workforce, they’re consistently cheering all the time and it’s one thing that we skilled on a smaller scale at The Joie Stadium within the unique sport.”
Manchester Metropolis’s UEFA Ladies’s Champions League group stage fixture towards Hammarby IF kicks-off at 5.45pm this night.
